you. the latest news on the week's top stories the war looms between turkey and syria after four days of cross border bombardments with some experts suspecting the rebels are trying to provoke foreign intervention. moscow demands an investigation to violent incident in a canadian detention center that left a twenty four year old brush and student clinging to life. and only hours left before him as well as head to polling stations for the presidential vote a race too close to call between the current socialist leader and he's young democrats rival.

washington to you live from moscow with me we're going to joshua welcome to the program now turkey and syria are on the brink of war after a four day exchange of live fire across the border fighting was triggered by the syrian side on wednesday with a mortar killing five target civilians women and children and car responded with artillery while its lawmakers authorize sending troops into syria if necessary several mortar shells have land of the turkish soil since provoking more return fire anger insists it doesn't want war but warrants it well we tailgate against any further attack it's not clear who's responsible for the provocations but the syrian fire zone is said to be under rebel control some experts suspect the shelling could be a false flag effort to incite intervention. you've got opposition forces there are there. they are desperate they are low on ammunition there

and i think they would love to have turkey get into the get into the flight they're moving they've moved their headquarters from turkey into syria and that's going to set up a logistical problem for them in coordination with forces inside of turkey to bring in more ammunition and and logistics to back them up but what would be an easier way then to set up a situation where where you bring turkey into the into the fight and in order to provide that kind of assistance that they need i don't rule that out. and the solace working there in that in that region there they're very very good at the kind of set up. claims emerged this week that some western backed syrian rebels are planning to target jewish communities once they have toppled this comes as the

u.s. and its allies maintain that the president must step down while they have offered no clear alternative several potential candidates are being groomed abroad one of them is the fact that syrian gentleman tell us was father is an alleged anti-semite and r.t. spoke to the journalist who broke the story on the ready and he says the rebels easily by the hand that feeds them. the irony of supporting the rebels who may eventually become great enemies of the west is something that's lost in the into the very eager interventionists who are pushing the west to intervene in syria the opposition interviewed a group of rebels in damascus who were holed up in various parts of the masters and . i interviewed them and some of them a few of them who traveled from afghanistan said that they had a big fight against the jews ahead of them and this is in the news for me because i've. people elsewhere particularly in pakistan say that they have

a fight with the jews ahead of them so they see that as the ultimate. one of the things that was particularly disturbing to me is how close is being groomed as a possible replacement for assad not a lot of people know that monarch losses father. lasse is a first rate he's written a book called the months of design which talks about the blood libel he was smuggled out class was smuggled out of the country by french spies he is he keeps making trips to saudi arabia but an awful lot of people know this history behind him enough people to be wary of. close being groomed as a as a possible replacement and coming up on r t a crackdown on dissent you don't hear much about. these get tough on the opposition and our brain with tear gas and water cannon as that wave of unrest in the state grows by the day.

twenty four year old russian student remains in critical condition after being brutally beaten in a canadian detention center almost two months ago denise telecasts was arrested after he allegedly threatened another student russia has demanded a full investigation and punishment for those responsible for the attack artist polly boyko has more. a trip to study english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's remand center and she was going to face to face like she was just barely. you don't know you know about that and it was no direct. thing i mean. i don't know why it was just

a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the worse cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly after months on the life support machine denise recently were changed consciousness doctors say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated. not eating our meals aren't you have been there already and he's grieving to reduce you . for your worries go our way or. very slowly or very the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise funds for denise's ballooning medical bills were actually all. action.

all or all into gold bull or oil in. general. or what. all the oil all. denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man christopher kirk suffragette a lacerated spleen and a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. very often in sharpening all we were and into not a lot but. you know and we've been good friends or in the worse i mean. the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like he didn't initially set out is now a distant prospect he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed

himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help he so desperately needs polly boyko r t. on our website right now israel faces a multimillion dollar lawsuit over the deaths during its twenty ten raid on a turkish aid flotilla. plus graham hopes russia's space agency and nasa are planning an expanded mission on the international space station in a bid to get one step closer to the red planet article has the details. of the twenty first century socialism or putting an oil the pan of the economy on liberal rails the dilemma for voters in today's presidential election in of as way or the current leader and his young democrat rival are neck and neck in opinion polls and as losing confidence now reports the vote is not only crucial for the

nation but the entire continent. the stakes could not be higher as venezuelans take to the polls to determine who will leave their country for the next six years at one end as president incumbent president hugo chavez was represented a radical change for venezuela and the region as a whole under his so-called twenty first century socialism policies where this is meant as a nationalization of certain industries as well as the use of venezuela's revenues from oil exports to really focus attention on some of the poorest segments of the population here at the same time venezuela is plagued with a high crime rate one of the highest in the world as well as corruption and these are just some of the issues that have been seized on by the opposition candidate and the previous he's a forty year old very wealthy businessman who criticize the country's economic policies now he's also promised to improve relations with the west now critics say and fear that he would really represent a radical shift for the country in the sense that he could impose austerity programs and possibly roll back some of those popular economic social justice

missions that hugo chavez has put into place now the results of this election will be significant far beyond this country's borders we have to keep in mind that venezuela has the world's largest proven oil reserves and the winner will get to determine just how to use this multi-trillion dollar assets with the likes of the u.s. wants access to that as well as black gold they aren't likely to get it under chavez administration the president has promised to ramp up production and reduce his country's dependence on the western markets by doubling crude exports to asia according to chavez as a new world order of that the west is just going to have to get used to. when the petroleum five countries which possess the majority of reserves. are russia iran saudi arabia iraq as well apart from the oil but there's a political side to the issue that is. real liberalism of the world would be dominated by washington but it. still would snow

a world power if you ask my victory in this election is do you. it could only be dangerous for striving to dominate the world now again the last time venezuelans took to the polls to vote for their president was six years ago there is massive excitement here both candidates have called in supporters to come to the streets early even hours before the polls opened it's a very festive mood people are very excited about this opportunity to really have a strong say about which direction they want their country and their region to go on and we will of course keep you updated throughout the day on these developments party and the captain up in caracas venezuela. it's been a week of unrest and being with clashes between police and anti-government protesters in bahrain authorities are cracking down almost daily on the opposition that's calling for more rights and advance to discrimination on monday the country's court upheld jail terms for nine medics who helped to treat pro-reform campaigners a day later demonstrators threw petrol bombs and stones at security officials following a funeral for an activist who died in custody of alleged mistreatment this friday

police disperse crowds of the sanders with water cannon and tear gas a sunni rockey has been cracking down on the opposition for twenty months now with about eighty deaths and overall thousands were arrested including prominent human rights activists have built a job is now in prison for attending an illegal demonstration former bahraini m.p.'s. explains why the west keeps its mouth shut when it comes to the country's unrest problem and the double standard which practice by old student john trees. on those regimes who. let's say we each relationship with them or probably they consider them as enemies but like old regime it's a part of the system they have lots of relationships they give them some let's say support. as. we went through the. take some first facilities

they have the only from other countries downstream on. what's happening here although it's. what's happening somewhere else. and on the way here in r.t. a georgian dream of becomes reality as the country's oppositional bloc secures a crucial victory over the ruling party forcing president saakashvili to go on the defensive. posture and tell us crusade a thousand strong peace rallies nor threats as it sets out to reach pakistan's most troubled region the story in detail and more in just a couple of minutes. in

this remote siberians in which people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the nation cuckoos practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign here are a conservative community. the do they all believe me here yet again i feel right. now i'm the first to do it the. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and teach them how to dance in the local star. seventeen year old nadia is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok i didn't ask on time perhaps it

was because i want to keep up to date with us more. the world was still i would live here of camp my background how my ancestors layer very attachment to the church brought. this to this remote glen deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in pesach you tit for not agreeing to the orthodox who forms introduced in washing the sixteen hundreds they'll believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying was more and more young people leaving for a big city it's the fear is the old believers culture could be imperiled. plans to continue her studies abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the jews are fresh in her memory so is the culture.

in. which brighton if you remove the song from feinstein. means stop totty dot com. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard bargain for the big picture.

for charity live from moscow the u.s. presidential candidates barack obama and they romney clashed over the economy in the role of government in their first t.v. debate this week polls showed romney overwhelmed incumbent obama commanding the ninety minute verbal duel romney said his rivals in favor of it trickle down government while obama said romney would bring the nation back to bush era canonic policies the us president has a slight add in the polls but as vulnerable due to criticism over we growth and employment and health care reform american political cartoonists and author ted rall thinks of romney continues in the same vein we could bypass the current american leader romantic place you could imagine it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in mickey sweet states that obama currently enjoys which considering the state of the economy over the last four years is saying something about the ineptitude of the romney campaign now that said he did

outperforms expectations and you know he is still in the game if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible to better despite hope it will be able to turn against obama and go for romney you know two party system that's all we really have it what was very strange is. that the democrats who typically identify better with the core of the downtrodden fail to humanize their point of view you know obama talked constantly about how to get a different approach rather than having a different vision americans don't want a different approach they want to different vision and they want solutions mitt romney talked about the people who are hurting in the midwest people who are unemployed who he met and asked for his help that's the kind of thing that obama should have done it's really politics want to one and somehow he was just really off his game hundreds of pakistanis joined by foreign peace activists are marching through the country in protest against u.s.

drone strikes the convoy led by cricket legend and opposition. front man imran khan is heading to south waziristan region plagued by insurgency and most frequently targeted by american missiles this despite warnings from pakistan's taliban militants that protesters could be targeted by suicide bombers political activists the believe the rally has the full support of the people. or if you go out of that region has welcomed india the only systems that is being provided by the government which does not want to open this. exposure because for the past five years they've been hiding the fact that. region on the on the public front the act you deny it but on privately behind the doors the u.s. government they actually accept the fact just a simple attack most of the energy and unfortunately for the past five years our government has actually bought into the american water and the american what has now become and should be should catch on all of these terrorists that are

doing it but unfortunately not able do not able to handle the economic affairs of the country let alone this is a mission that has been before the garden. you're watching us now take a look at some of the stories from around the world. israel claims a drone shot down over its territory on saturday is a raining origin the young man's plane entered israel's airspace from the south and was reportedly having towards them on a nuclear reactor for surveillance israeli officials called the incident f. attentional act of terrorism in the past similar missions have been carried out by lebanese militant group hezbollah. miners in south africa have rallied against the dismissal of twelve thousand of their colleagues were sacked after staging a strike demanding better pay and conditions the protesters are also mourning miners killed by police and brutal clashes that began two months ago so far forty

eight people have died in the ongoing unrest. south korea has announced agree and agreements with the us which allows it to possess missiles capable of reaching north korea previous arms path with washington restricted souls ability to develop or deploying long range rockets make many targets time and stayed out of its reach and this could possibly add to tensions in the am pacific we can ask hearts of japan and china now also fall within cells range. mass protests have taken place in several cities across italy as people continue to advance their anger over intensifying spending cuts protesters gathered in venice on saturday demanding an immediate referendum on independence from rome this follows a series of violent clashes between students and riot police that saw several officers injured earlier this week a professor of the. who's separatist party organized the venetian rally believes that with biting cards getting worse floating city will be much better off on its

own. or in a situation worse than a colony because there's a worse once they've backstory in italy it's the highest in the world and our services. are extremely poor we need billion nace in. our regional resources each year and that's how bearable and. a couple of days ago there was a siege of the same arts bell tower by four workers and there's this huge weight and hearing vein it so it's it's almost explosive sold to the day we had the thousands of people who have gathered in front of their regional government for sure in italy we're not the only one there really is sort of the strong movements for it of course who are the best store going to ice but. it's going to have other regions severely. opposition and george are still celebrating after.

arresting a majority of seats in parliament away from the ruling party in monday's vote the georgian dream bloc secure of more than half of the votes while president saakashvili salary is barely top forty percent and like care reports leaders authority has been rocked. it was a jubilation like never before seen in believe it felt like georgia had won the world cup. there when was not yet been found but thousands took to the streets to celebrate supporters of the it was the support together in central square policing straight out of the exit poll results suggest that their party could be victorious in the parliamentary elections something hardly any one of them we have expected in the field months ago last year the ruling party is rating was at seventy percent and nobody could challenge that so confident was saakashvili that he amended the constitution granting more powers to the prime minister a position many predicted he would eventually feel himself little did he know he

was digging his own hole won't he moved east changes to the constitution is it time to as a dream that he never see the parliament these are the majority of his party but that's a little less however this situation did not come out of nowhere prison torture tapes released in september he'd saakashvili the hardest thousands took to the streets as allegations emerged that he personally ordered the torture and filming of these atrocities and now the president could even lose his job with the possible next prime minister really already making his intentions clear. this man's ideology has established a climate of lines of violence and torture it will be good if he submits his resignation the now starting various procedures to force him to resign saakashvili did concede defeat live on there but the question remains whether he's really ready to let go of the reins it could be a dramatic change or it could be the herald of

a. of infighting talk issues admission of defeat in a sense perhaps shows that he's a wounded animal but the would be still a fear that he would use the prerogatives of the president to try to spin your position remember it's a rather disparate group of people who have been primarily united by the whole stability to saakashvili it wasn't only the prison tape scandal which brought saakashvili as fortress of power down say experts corruption among elites daunting poverty in playing hardball with russia all contributed the new ruling party says it will address these issues in the first place but as the party continues in belief georgia is bracing itself for a new era and the first peaceful transition of power in its post soviet history. r.t. reporting from billy c. in georgia. and next we'll look at the scars of conflict still visible in vietnam almost forty years after former president richard nixon and now it's the u.s. one and it's war there that's coming up after the break.

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